Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc, AL
Power reliability at Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc
Alabama's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 2.4 outages from Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc in the most recent year, 5.8 hours total. That is 7% less outage time than the Alabama state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.4 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc
Serving 18,631 customers here, Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Coosa Valley Electric Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Alabama territory, serving 18,631 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Alabama as a whole, across every utility that filed: Alabama's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.